could expect to hear in some form or other what the papers had to say that day from the perspective of his colleagues. In fact, Lewis did read the newspapers when something important was happening. During the Irish Civil War in the 1920s, he read the papers.1 During the great miners’ strike in 1926, he also read the papers.2 The Japanese bombardment of Shanghai in 1932 had forced Jack to read the papers because Warnie had found himself in the middle of the new war brewing in the Far East between